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Those AMG powered W124 and W126 cars are seriously rare and incredible. I am humbled beyond words.
As a point of reference the engine in the W126 is a M117 engine with AMG twin cam heads...a VERY rare engine, there is only a handful in the US.
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ah I do remember these from the car mags. cool stuff.
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The one we did for MT.....
 And the "Baby Hammer".....  And an SL..... 
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Cool history. I did a research project on AMG's 50th anniversary earlier this year and spent half a day in Affalterbach touring AMG and HWA. So many great layers and stories. They're still a very young company in many ways and fiercely maintain a degree of independence from MBZ. Looking back, the Hammer was clearly a big inflection point in the company's history.
 
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The white one above is perfect in so many ways.
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Timely thread
At the risk of a slight hijack, the latest issue of R&T has a little article about AMG this month, and it showed a few pictures of the first car massaged by the 2 freunde from Grossaspach:
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@ R K T - Who is "we"? Beverly Hills Motor Accessories?
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Yes.....the white car was a conversion done by BHMA.
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I've been a BHMA fan since the early '80s and still have many of their brochures and AMG swag from that time period. I even built my own 560SEC with AMG bits as I've also been a Mercedes 126 chassis fan since its debut in Europe in late 1980..it just took me a few years to make the leap to buy one and then completely go through it and take it from bone stock to: 
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How does a car like this figure into things?
https://boston.craigslist.org/sob/cto/d/1991-mercedes-benz-w124-34l/6347072677.html
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slow&rusty, nice car, buddy.
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I always wanted to drop an AMG motor into my wagon.
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Hey S&R, speaking of suspensions, do you know anything about these guys and their kit? Current DD is a 94 sedan. Recently put new front control arms, Bilstein HDs and Bilstein T3 springs in the car and it has definitely stiffened up the ride while maintaining comfort. What I'm after is a proper sway bar more than anything but this kit looks interesting. Know them?
https://catuned.com/w124-1993-1995-mercedes-benz-front-shock-spring-separate Been thinking about making droplinks and using a 911 Tarett swaybar kit.
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it's unfortunately an hour away so I can't just go look at it. Don't want to waste the guy's time too but would be fun to drive it back to back with my car.
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If that were closer my checkbook would be at serious risk.
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